A red cloud of space gas is giving astronomers a glimpse at star birth

A telescope in Chile recently captured a beautiful image of a star-forming region of the universe, where a red cloud of gas glows in a distant part of the sky. The image, and others like it, is providing astronomers with a peek into how stars are born and evolve The nebula, called RCW 34, plays host to multiple young stars that heat the hydrogen gas around it Once that gas is heated, reaching the edge of the gas cloud, it flows outward in a process called "champagne flow," according to the Europ...